There is no room to advance to other groups in order to learn new skills...

Advice to Management

If you want to keep the talent you have in order to better the company it would help increasing salaries or bonuses to reflect the person's work. People can only take so much. Reward loyalty instead of taking advantage...

Good culture pre-merger, focused on commercial banking. Small branch within a large international bank. Good work/life balance, with opportunities to contribute. Cutting edge technology with top level colleagues.

Cons

Post-merger: continuous cost-cutting with continuous change of focus: first investment banking focus buildout, then cross-selling of IB products. Finally, just trying to stay afloat as a US $ center.

Advice to Management

Focus on strengths in US market, rather than trying to compete with the bigger IB banks.

too many jobs for one person, micromanagement, working with people that don't know what they're doing, pitiful bonuses and no raises in last couple of years, the limiting of telecommuting in recent months

Advice to Management

There are other jobs out there and your good employees are leaving you. You cannot expect to compete if you don't have good employees. Implement telecommuting again; why have you decided to go backwards?